Quito

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkitoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtəʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: keto
• Rhymes: -iːtəʊ

Quito

2. The capital city of Ecuador.
3. (historical) A historical province of colonial South America, corresponding to present-day Ecuador.
   • 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 27:

     The conquest of the northern provinces of Quito was undertaken by one of Pizarro’s lieutenants, Sebastian de Benalcazar.

• Capello, Ernesto (2011): City at the Center of the World: Space, History, and Modernity in Quito

• quoit, toqui

Quito

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪto]

Quito n (relational adjective quitský)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• “Quito”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

• IPA^(key): /ki.to/

Quito f

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkfi.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -itɔ
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Quito n (indeclinable)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• Quito in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Spanish Quito. Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

• Rhymes: -itu
• Homophone: quito
• Hyphenation: Qui‧to

Quito ?

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• IPA^(key): [ˈkitɔ]

Quito n (genitive singular Quita, declension pattern of mesto)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• “Quito”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Named after the Quitu tribe. The name is a combination of two Tsafiki words: quitso (“center”) + to (“the world”); roughly translating as "center of the world."

• IPA^(key): /ˈkito/ [ˈki.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: Qui‧to

Quito m

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiːtʊ/

Quito ? (genitive Quitos)

1. Quito (the capital city of Ecuador)